Serbia is a country in the Balkans, in the southeast of Europe. Learner books often file it under “Eastern Europe” and say it sits between Romania and Bosnia and Herzegovina; that is a tidy map sentence — Serbia also touches several other neighbours.

Serbia is a country in the Balkans, in the southeast of Europe塞爾維亞是位在巴爾幹半島、歐洲東南部的一個國家。Learner books often file it under "Eastern Europe" and say it sits between Romania and Bosnia and Herzegovina學生用的書常常把它歸在「東歐」，說它位在羅馬尼亞和波士尼亞與赫塞哥維納之間；that is a tidy map sentence — Serbia also touches several other neighbours那只是地圖上簡化的說法——塞爾維亞其實還跟好幾個其他鄰國接壤。

The capital is Belgrade. About seven million people lived there in the 2010s; population numbers move.

The capital is Belgrade首都是貝爾格勒。About seven million people lived there in the 2010s2010年代大約有七百萬人住在那裡；population numbers move人口數字會變動。

The English name is a learned borrowing from Medieval Latin Serbia; you can also just see Serb + -ia, “the land of the Serbs.” In the twentieth century it was the heart of Yugoslavia; older Taiwanese textbooks still mention that. Today it is its own country.

The English name is a learned borrowing from Medieval Latin Serbia這個英文名字是從中世紀拉丁文Serbia借來的學術用詞；you can also just see Serb + -ia, "the land of the Serbs."你也可以把它拆成Serb加-ia，也就是「塞爾維亞人的土地」。In the twentieth century it was the heart of Yugoslavia在二十世紀，它曾是南斯拉夫的核心地區；older Taiwanese textbooks still mention that比較舊的台灣教科書還是會提到這點。Today it is its own country現在它是一個獨立的國家。